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Finally got a SSD

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rgriffin9219

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As title says, since I'm a cheap bastard, I've put it off for awhile. After space on my current drives got low, I convinced myself it was a good idea to get an SSD. After reading a few forums for installation tips, the installation went very smooth. After the first reboot to desktop, I was simply floored. I think I seen more of a difference in this hdd upgrade than when I went from a q6600 Core Duo to an i7. I'm completely happy.

But, this leads to a question... my board has the Marvell controller for it's SATA3 slots (Gigabyte X58). Many people say Marvell controllers absolutely suck and recommend using the SATA2 ports instead. Is this good advice? Would there be a noticeable increase in speed by switching to the SATA2? Right now I'm getting about 400/325...
 
On my old gigabyte board the drive seemed to run smoother on the native SATA 2 ports. I didn't benchmark it so I can't provide you numbers, but I suspect that even though the max throughput dropped, everything else was better. The computer also booted about 20 seconds faster on the native SATA 2 vs the Marvell SATA3.

All you have to do is swap it and try.
 
I remember the 1st Gen jmicron junk SSDs.. that left a pretty sour taste in my mouth.. then I reluctantly decided to be an early adopter of the first Vertex "Indilinx" SSDs and I was absolutely amazed at the speed and performance of them.. sure benchmarks dropped over time pretty bad with the first firmwares before they tweaked the garbage collection routines but even at a degraded level they still performed faster than a spinny drive.
 
Pwoz said:
On my old gigabyte board the drive seemed to run smoother on the native SATA 2 ports. I didn't benchmark it so I can't provide you numbers, but I suspect that even though the max throughput dropped, everything else was better. The computer also booted about 20 seconds faster on the native SATA 2 vs the Marvell SATA3.

All you have to do is swap it and try.
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Yeah, you lose some headline numbers (specifically sequential transfer) but overall performance might be better. Sequential speed doesn't really matter that much in normal use - or at least not as much as random performance and access time.
 
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